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The Biopolitics of Lively Data

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In this chapter, the property relationships between protected health data and the healthcare information industry, primarily third-party companies that have positioned themselves on the outer nodes of the legislatively constructed network of disclosure, such as electronic medical records software companies and health informatics enterprises are described and further explained. The hope is to disentangle, or at least trouble, the complex web of the health-data biopolitical economy.

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  • Veteran Health Administration
  • Electronic Health Record
  • Prescription Data
  • Protected Health Information
  • Information Service Company

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Ebeling, M.F.E. (2016). The Biopolitics of Lively Data. In: Healthcare and Big Data. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50221-6_5

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